Wes Streeting

And the truth is, yes, Welsh Labour were having a hard time.

They'd been incumbents for 30 years in Wales.

That was always going to be a difficult election.

But if that's true, why was Welsh Labour smashed in the way that it was?

But the SNP, an unpopular government mired in the scandal of Sturgeon and Salmon, why were they re-elected?

So I would say that up to and including the day I resigned.

I was absolutely driving and leading some of the success of this government.

Well, on my watch, I'm able to say something that not a single one of my Conservative predecessors were able to say, which is the day I left the Department of Health and Social Care, I left the NHS objectively in a better place than I found it.

Absolutely talking to parliamentary colleagues.

Seeking to plot, undermine, remove?

No.

Where I got to, and in fact, you know, just thinking back to the aftermath of those results, even then I was trying to help.

I spent my Saturday afternoon looking at an earlier draft of the speech the Prime Minister ended up giving on the Monday and sent feedback that,

in going through the speech and basically saying if he gives this speech it's boilerplate we've heard it before it doesn't meet the scale of the challenge

I think he will be in serious danger.

Don't do that.

Don't do that speech.

And we got a marginally better version.

But that was the moment... So it was more boilerplate before?

Yeah, that was the moment I think he lost confidence and lost control of events.